John Brown letter to his children, 1854 September 30.

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John Brown letter to his children, 1854 September 30.

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ALS by John Brown to "Dear Children" dated 30 September 1854 from Akron, Ohio. The letter is addressed to Mr. Henry Thompson, North Elba, Essex County, New York, and is postmarked from Akron, Ohio, on October 2. Brown asks his children for their "advice + feeling in the matter" of whether or not he should "go with my family to Kansas as more likely to benefit the colored people on the whole." Brown also requests that his children "learn from Mr. Epps + all the colored people" in North Elba how he should proceed and informs them he has also written Gerrit Smith, Frederick Douglass, and James McCune Smith for their advice in the matter.

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Western Reserve Historical Society, Research Library

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